wblynch
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Poor thing, get some film in and take it out for an afternoon.
Certainly 3 or 4 rolls a year can't hurt?
Show us your SLR ..... WHAT?
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Poor thing, get some film in and take it out for an afternoon.
Certainly 3 or 4 rolls a year can't hurt?
wakarimasen
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Looks good! Is that the 17-40 lens?
agoglanian
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Nope it was the 20mm f/2.8 from Canon, I just recently sold it though, good lens, really underrated.
DCB
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lam
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jarski
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nice symmetry lam.
Sid836
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I am not a big spender these days as I am saving for a Leica. However, I could not resist this for 10 euros:
Penny Lane
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Dug this creature out of my crate full of dead bodies (which I need to re-organize, can't find a spare part in there to save my life atm) and finally scrapped a Praktica SuperTL with a dead meter to replace the curtains:
Kamera Werkstatten Praktica FX, 1954ish by bimmer1502, on Flickr
Replacing the curtains on these is fairly easy but when the winding and speed mechanisms start to become erratic they can be a headache to straighten out. As simple as these cameras are, that means that some of the mechanical components have simply worn well out of spec. After a long night of tweaking, it all seems to work though.
This FX had been in the crate of write-offs for about four years. lately I've started fishing out everything that could make for a working camera and started to work my way through. Th Konica C35 I fixed up a while ago had been in the same Crate of Doom for two years. So don't toss a stranded project: you never know when parts and/or skills become available to finish the job 😎
Derk
Kamera Werkstatten Praktica FX, 1954ish by bimmer1502, on Flickr
Replacing the curtains on these is fairly easy but when the winding and speed mechanisms start to become erratic they can be a headache to straighten out. As simple as these cameras are, that means that some of the mechanical components have simply worn well out of spec. After a long night of tweaking, it all seems to work though.
This FX had been in the crate of write-offs for about four years. lately I've started fishing out everything that could make for a working camera and started to work my way through. Th Konica C35 I fixed up a while ago had been in the same Crate of Doom for two years. So don't toss a stranded project: you never know when parts and/or skills become available to finish the job 😎
Derk
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Michael Markey
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CliveC
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Kyocera Samurai X4.0
Camcorder-style half-frame SLR, one of the odder cameras in my collection.
Camcorder-style half-frame SLR, one of the odder cameras in my collection.
Sid836
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Just because a manual focus SLR that accepts only auto focus lenses does not feel right:
Problem solved!
Problem solved!
Kiwijohn
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I got one of those for my 21st in 92. My biggest regret was trading it for a Pentax compact when I went travelling. I was having a look on the bay for another when I found an EOS 630 in an op shop.
Sid836
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I had it in a drawer in like new condition. I did not like the idea of having to use AF lenses on it while it does not AF. This was until recently that I had accidentally came across an M42 to EOS EF adapter.
And now here she is. Put on the adapter, screw in the M42 lens, set the aperture dial to 1 and you have a perfect aperture priority almost all manual camera 🙂
p.giannakis
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Greyscale
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I bough some black cameras this week.
Yashica FX-103 Program
Black Camera Day by Greyscale3, on Flickr
Yashica TL Electro X ITS
Black Camera Day by Greyscale3, on Flickr
Canon F1
Black Camera Day by Greyscale3, on Flickr
Canon A1
Black Camera Day by Greyscale3, on Flickr
The two Canons are in absolutely perfect condition. In a funny coincidence, my niece mentioned that she would like to try her hand at film photography. So this morning, I had shipped her a very nice Canon AE-1 with an FD 50/1.8 lens, a 2X macro focusing teleconverter, and a Makinon zoom lens. Then this afternoon, at a tag sale, I stumble a bag containing the F1, the A1, an FD 50mm 1:3.5 Macro, anf FD 28/2.8, a Tamron 28~200mm Aspherical 3.8-5.6, and a Vivitar 500mm macro-focusing mirror lens, plus filters and film and some other stuff at the bottom that I just haven't got around to, all for the princely sum of $80.
Sometimes, karma is not such a b____ after all. 🙂
PS Also in the bag:
Also in the bag: 67mm Vivitar orange and red filters, Hoya +1, +2, and +3 closeup filters, also in 67mm (new), Canon FD 50/3.5 Macro, Canon FD 28/2.8, Tamron aspherical 28~200mm 1:3.8-5.6 zoom (with a 72mm close-up filter), a Vivitar 500mm f8 mirror lens, 1 roll of FujicolorSuper HGII 200 and one of 100 (36 exp), 1 roll of Ilford HP5, and one roll of Plus X in a re-loadable cassette, various end caps and body caps, spare batteries for both cameras, and the tan canvas bag itself is quite nice.
Yashica FX-103 Program
Black Camera Day by Greyscale3, on Flickr
Yashica TL Electro X ITS
Black Camera Day by Greyscale3, on Flickr
Canon F1
Black Camera Day by Greyscale3, on Flickr
Canon A1
Black Camera Day by Greyscale3, on Flickr
The two Canons are in absolutely perfect condition. In a funny coincidence, my niece mentioned that she would like to try her hand at film photography. So this morning, I had shipped her a very nice Canon AE-1 with an FD 50/1.8 lens, a 2X macro focusing teleconverter, and a Makinon zoom lens. Then this afternoon, at a tag sale, I stumble a bag containing the F1, the A1, an FD 50mm 1:3.5 Macro, anf FD 28/2.8, a Tamron 28~200mm Aspherical 3.8-5.6, and a Vivitar 500mm macro-focusing mirror lens, plus filters and film and some other stuff at the bottom that I just haven't got around to, all for the princely sum of $80.
Sometimes, karma is not such a b____ after all. 🙂
PS Also in the bag:
Also in the bag: 67mm Vivitar orange and red filters, Hoya +1, +2, and +3 closeup filters, also in 67mm (new), Canon FD 50/3.5 Macro, Canon FD 28/2.8, Tamron aspherical 28~200mm 1:3.8-5.6 zoom (with a 72mm close-up filter), a Vivitar 500mm f8 mirror lens, 1 roll of FujicolorSuper HGII 200 and one of 100 (36 exp), 1 roll of Ilford HP5, and one roll of Plus X in a re-loadable cassette, various end caps and body caps, spare batteries for both cameras, and the tan canvas bag itself is quite nice.
mob81
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Those are the Reasons I use my ZI Rangefinder less 🙁
3 of TWO beautiful things on those pictures (Cameras, Lenses and films 🙂 )
Minolta film camera and zeiss by Mohammed Basamh, on Flickr
Minolta film camera and zeiss by Mohammed Basamh, on Flickr
3 of TWO beautiful things on those pictures (Cameras, Lenses and films 🙂 )
Minolta film camera and zeiss by Mohammed Basamh, on Flickr
Minolta film camera and zeiss by Mohammed Basamh, on Flickr
Rodchenko
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Sid836
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I don't like electronics too much, but I love this one
BlackXList
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Being (among others) a Konica fan, I hadn't really paid too much attention to the Minolta range.
I've just seen those two Minolta AF bodies with the Zeiss lenses on, and the penny dropped about the lens mount.
Bugger, that could be an expensive realization haha.
I've just seen those two Minolta AF bodies with the Zeiss lenses on, and the penny dropped about the lens mount.
Bugger, that could be an expensive realization haha.
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